C a r o l y n D a u g h t e r s

Why aren’t you taking my advice?

Don’t be all, um, you never offered me any advice and anyway I don’t need any right now and if for some reason I did need advice why would I turn to you? That’s just silly. You see that, right?

So I’ll ask you again: Why aren’t you taking my advice? I’m chock full of useful information.
Carolyn: Cheryl Strayed, you’re super busy these days, what with your book tours for Wild and Tiny Beautiful Things and your pool parties with Oprah and your backlog of unanswered … Continue Reading

The Real Cheryl Strayed

The fab Cheryl Strayed (aka Dear Sugar) just published Wild, a memoir of her 3-month, 1,100-mile hike on the Pacific Crest Trail in 1995.

Says Random House, at 22, Strayed “thought she had lost everything. In the wake of her mother’s death, her family scattered and her own marriage was soon destroyed.

Four years later, with nothing more to lose, she made the most impulsive decision of her life: to hike … from the Mojave Desert through California and Oregon … Continue Reading

Cheryl Strayed - Wild

Cheryl Strayed was interviewed in the March/April edition of Poets & Writers. Couple things to know about Cheryl: (1) She’s the author of the new big-buzz memoir, Wild, and (2) she recently revealed she’s Sugar, advice columnist for the Rumpus.

In Sugar’s most famous column, a 26-year-old wrote, “I write like a girl, I write about my lady life experiences, and it usually comes out as unfiltered emotion, unrequited love, and eventual discussion of my vagina as a metaphor…I am a … Continue Reading